Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help you on that issue; I don't agree with what you're trying to do;' and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

I learned that in seventy percent of all the civil cases in the judiciary of the United State at least one of the parties is not represented by an attorney. I didn’t know that.

We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.

The attorney doesn't decide what to do; the client ultimately decides what to do.

My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'

Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.

How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.